Does Nicole have a source for his claim that most of the Stonewall rioters were African-American or Latino?

No.

Probably because most of them weren’t African-American or Latino.

A google search on Stonewall and the gay marches and movement that emerged from it will quickly reveal that most of the people participating at the time were young gay white males.

And in fact, the history of the post-Stonewall gay rights movement is largely a history of gay white males from the midwest and south coming from small towns to cities like New York and San Francisco to live free and form their own communities.

During this period, which lasted until very recently, most Latino and African-American gays who lived in those cities were closeted, because of the influence of conservative Catholicism on the staright Latino community, and the influence of the conservative Southern Baptist church on the straight black community — an influence evidenced most recently by the “yes” vote of those straight communities on Proposition 8 in “liberal” California.

Yes, I know that the liberals and leftists who have controlled gay politics for years want to pretend that gay white males don’t exist and that, as white males, they are less “progressive” than non-whites and women, but facts are facts. I know, because I lived through this period in San Francisco, LA, New York, etc.

George Orwell, in his book “1984”, talked about how totalitarian governments seek to control people’s minds through propaganda based on lies or half-truths.

I would hope that we could do a little better than that and not rewrite history in the name of political correctness.

The opening paragraph’s message is basically shut up and trust the Democratic Party to bring us equality: Ignore that DADT was hatched during the Clinton administration and now is in its second decade; Don’t fume over the incredibly offensive DOJ DOMA brief; Stop complaining about the on-going failure of a Dem majority in Congress to take on employment discrimination with an inclusive ENDA bill. Well I am in complete agreement with Robin Tyler who said at the recent SAME activist forum that we must stop cutting slack for the many pols who take for granted LGBT support and are at best minimalists where it comes to LGBT civil rights. I will not support any candidate from any party who does not support LGBT rights forthrightly, and I will not be shut up, intimidated or bought off. Change will only happen if we keep pushing for it, and pushing on Dems is part of the equation.